One of our favorite dance-off movies, How She Move, is coming to DVD on April 29. Here's what you can look forward to along with it:
Special Features
- Featurette: The Characters of How She Move
- Featurette: How She Move: From Rehearsal to Film
- Featurette: How She Move: Telling Her Story
- Trailers: Theatrical Trailer #1
Having just featured an interview with How She Move Star, Tre Armstrong, we figure it was time to focus on the movie itself.
How are critics reacting to the MTV production? Here are a few viewpoints...
- The story itself is a hodgepodge of devices, conceits and half-baked motives, but amid the dissing and the dancing are affecting moments, usually quieter ones, between people at war who shouldn't be. -- The Washington Post
- It's a little bit earnest, it's a little bit afterschool-special-y, but its young newcomer cast is highly appealing, its spirit is honest and affecting. -- Flick Filosopher
- A grittier, slightly more real-world version of movies like Step Up, Stomp the Yard, and Save the Last Dance. -- The Boston Globe
- Honestly, this is a carbon copy of every other 'gotta dance' flick ever made, down to the cheesy emcees who host the big dance-off (it's in Detroit!) and the wannabe heart-tugging conclusion. -- The Detroit News
Tre Armstrong has starred in a number of dancing movies over the years: Honey, Shall We Dance?, and Save the Last Dance 2.
Now, though, Armstrong has a chance to show off her acting chops and dancing chops in the new film How She Move. It comes out today. The choreographer/actress recently spoke about the project with MovieWeb:
Can you tell me a little bit about the casting process on this film?
Tre Armstrong: It was a fun process. I was contacted by Stephanie Gorin, the casting director for this film. She asked me to hold an audition myself, and choreograph the routine. So I did that. I decided to put myself on the tape. I figured, "What the Hell?" Stephanie saw the tape and said, "Great." She wanted me to come in for the role.
So they had you choreograph your own moves for the audition. Did they have you bring some of those original moves into the actual film itself?
Tre Armstrong: I didn't really bring my own moves into this film, per se. Only because we had such a wickedly amazing and talent choreographer already by the name of Hi-Hat. I had previously worked with her before on the Missy Elliot tour, as well as some other projects.
I felt it disrespectful to change what she already had planned out for us. What I would do is, in the film, when they had us acting out certain movements, I would add my own personality to that. And Hi-Hat is such a wicked person. She is so easy to get along with. Once she saw what I was doing, if it fit the mood, she had no problem with it.
Read the full interview with Armstrong now.